Water Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. House.
Water Hall
- WRENN ID
- ragged-span-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Water Hall, Water Hall Lane, Shalford
- OS grid reference
- TL 729 291
- Coordinates
- 51.93364, 0.5144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water Hall is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It has a timber frame, with a weatherboarded dado and plaster above, and some exposed framing at the rear. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack in the middle, along with 20th-century stacks at the left end and at the rear of the right bay. There is a rear extension that runs the full length of the house. It is one storey high with attics. The exterior includes French windows, four 20th-century casements, and three additional casements in gabled dormers, all with diamond leading. The front door is from the 20th century, and the roof is half-hipped at the left end only. Inside, the house features chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, exposed joists, primary straight bracing visible in the walls, and a clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Water Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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